waterborne disease
collocation in Englishmeaningsofwaterborneanddisease
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waterborne
adjective
uk/ˈwɔː.tə.bɔːn/us/ˈwɑː.t ̬ɚ.bɔːrn/
carried by or ...
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disease
noun
uk/dɪˈziːz/us/dɪˈziːz/
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by ...
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Chlorination to prevent and controlwaterbornedisease.
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A practical new strategy to preventwaterbornedisease.
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Clearly, waterborne cryptosporidiosis is the major infectious cause ofwaterbornediseasein the western world.
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This may be even more important forwaterbornediseasethan for other causes of outbreaks.
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When untreated wastewater is used to irrigate crops, there is a potential high risk ofwaterbornedisease.
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The water shortage was complicated by other factors as well, such as chemicals in the drinking water,waterbornedisease, and the mixing of fresh water with sewage.
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Reductions inwaterbornedisease, typhoid particularly (now known to affect adversely the adult health of childhood survivors) and diarrhea provide a large part of the answer.
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Food and water are important routes of infection, and there is a large amount of national and international legislation to reduce the burden of food- andwaterbornedisease.
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This paper reports the results of some simple mathematical models of outbreaks ofwaterbornedisease in populations with varying levels of immunity due to prior water and non-water exposure.
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People who are infected by awaterbornediseaseare usually confronted with related costs and not seldom with a huge financial burden.
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